Word: vetoes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...THIS point, the tenants secured a written agreement from Gruson and Ebert that the University would file no funding application without tenant approval. Since any such application calls for information concerning developing, architecture, etc., this agreement indirectly gave the tenants a veto over all plans for the new housing...
...decision to reappoint Radical Philosopher Herbert Marcuse to the San Diego faculty outraged local American Legionnaires, brought insistent demands for McGill's ouster and prompted the regents to assume veto power over faculty tenure appointments throughout the nine-campus University of California system. McGill rode out the storm. "There will be no inquisition aimed at political heretics while I am chancellor," he assured his faculty...
Subsequently, he said, B.S.U. leaders turned to "tactics of threat and coercion" that resulted in the humiliation of Maurice Jackson, the department head. Jackson, a black, quit Riverside after signing a statement giving the B.S.U. central committee broad veto powers over the hiring of the black studies professors and administrators...
...would be distributed among several academic departments, drew loud applause from the faculty. Representatives of the B.S.U. met with Hinderaker the next day to demand that the department be reinstated. Nonetheless, some of them seemed to be having second thoughts. "We think perhaps we made a mistake by demanding veto power too soon," said Booker McClain, a member of the B.S.U. central committee. "We have decided to make a retreat for the time being." Preparing for the worst all the same, Hinderaker rescinded Riverside's policy of permitting students to demonstrate inside campus buildings...
...Government austerity. Second, Nixon saw an opportunity to assert authority in a personal way. In his first year's dealings with Congress, the President suffered the Haynsworth defeat and the close call on the ABM. Now he has gone to the people and he has made a crucial veto stick. Congress may be more chary in the future about challenging him. For a time, at least, Nixon has won the right to dictate a federal agenda according to his own priorities...